The enforcement team of Nigeria’s National Communication Commission (NCC) has arrested a suspect for allegedly selling pre-registred SIM cards in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. NCC’s Head of Enforcement Efosa Idehen said that the arrest followed a tip-off.
He said that the service providers gave the NCC details and useful information. Idehen said that no fewer than six other suspects from the southwest were beomg trailed by the commission with a view to bringing them to book.
He said since the NCC began arresting people in the business, its enforcement agents had recovered seven suspect machines, five of them machines being operated in Abuja. Idehen described the activities of people selling pre-registered, activated SIM cards as sabotage, saying that there was a need to protect the country’s communications.